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Endometriosis: When Will Medicine and Society Take the Disease Seriously?
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Endometriosis: When Will Medicine and Society Take the Disease Seriously?

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An estimated 190 million women worldwide live with endometriosis, a chronic condition in which uterus-like cells grow outside the uterus, on the ovaries, intestine or peritoneum, causing severe pain, heavy bleeding and sometimes infertility. This DW report follows Theresia Crone, who first landed in hospital with abdominal pain at 14 and now runs the advocacy initiative EndEndoSilence, pushing German politicians to adopt a national endometriosis strategy modeled on France's. It also follows Priscilla Herbil, who spent twenty years medicating through menstruation and now manages her symptoms with nutrition, physiotherapy and massage rather than surgery. Doctors and researchers explain why diagnosis takes an average of seven years and why the disease's cause remains unknown. Interviews and observational footage of both women's daily routines carry the film, building a picture of a widespread condition that medicine has historically dismissed as ordinary period pain. The film's focus stays on recognition, research funding and the everyday cost of being disbelieved for years before getting a name for the pain.